Haute Trash Art Show Visiting Ballard

Cameron April 24th, 2008

Hailing from San Francisco, the Haute Trash art show is visiting Ballard from April 18 to May 10th, at the home of New York Fashion Academy (You know, the place that’s brought in all those well-dressed, aspiring fashionistas, wandering the historic area of Ballard?). The exhibit kicked off its three week residency at NYFA with a couture fashion show, presented by Re Store and twenty-five Washington-based artists and designers “upcycling” waste into art and culture. The sixth annual Recycled Art & Fashion Show returned to honor Seattle’s Zero Waste Resolution Number 30990, and what a party it was! Models rocked actual shower caddies as pretty believable board shorts, and my favorite, a conglomeration of aluminum cans, plastic wrappings and some metal shiny things to create a non-traditional Japanese kimono silhouette. But if you did not get a chance to see the show, well, there’s always next year, but you still have a good couple weeks to check out the gallery. The exhibit doesn’t have a fashion emphasis, rather a wide variety of mixed media art installations (photography, sculpture and other 3-D creations) all celebrating imagination, innovation and irony; art is everywhere, even in a trash can.